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Caves reveal clues to UK weather
by Tom Heap
At Pooles Cavern in Derbyshire, it was discovered that the stalagmites grow faster in the winter months when it rains more. Alan Walker, who guides visitors through the caves, says the changes in rainfall are recorded in the stalactites and stalagmites like the growth rings in trees. Stalagmites from a number of caves have now been analysed by Dr Andy Baker at Newcastle University. After splitting and polishing the rock, he can measure its growth precisely and has built up a precipitation history going back thousands of years. His study suggests this autumn's rainfall is not at all unusual when looked at over such a timescale but is well within historic variations. He believes politicians find it expedient to blame a man-made change in our weather rather than addressing the complex scientific picture.

I like that closing sentence -- "future decision-making could be made based on scientific data and not on political expediency". I wouldn't count on it, but that would be great.

1 posted on 07/18/2022 8:49:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

They shouldn’t have been driving gas powered chariots and allowing their camels to fart so much.


2 posted on 07/18/2022 8:50:51 AM PDT by silent majority rising ( )
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To: SunkenCiv

before they invented Wells , Africa still has a problem understanding Wells


3 posted on 07/18/2022 8:50:56 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SunkenCiv

So climate change occurs without burning fossil fuels? Never saw that coming!


4 posted on 07/18/2022 8:52:06 AM PDT by Spok (Don’t pee down my leg and tell me it’s raining.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It doesn’t take “climate change”.

Just a year or two of bad weather can do it.


5 posted on 07/18/2022 8:52:29 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: SunkenCiv

Sink their boats. Shoot down their planes. Plant landmines ahead of their invading columns.

It’s for the children.


6 posted on 07/18/2022 8:52:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Hell, the illegals already drank Lake Mead and Lake Powell dry. Americans are about to start paying for illegal immigration. I don’t know what the hell the Snowflakes were taught in “college” that made them think America could support the entire population of the western hemisphere.


7 posted on 07/18/2022 8:54:46 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (First, they stole our elections. Then, they stole our country.)
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To: SunkenCiv
This begins what's known as the Dark Age cooling period. If you define the Dark Age as the fall of the western Roman empire, the begin date is around AD 376. If by "Dark Age" you're talking about the cooling period that followed the Roman Warm Period, the begin date is closer to AD 300 -- when average temps topped out and started gradually declining. Some say it was closer to AD 270, some say more like AD 300.

That's when crop yields started going down, rain patterns were harder to predict, and plagues went up. Don't let the warmageddonists fool you. Life during the cooling periods suck. Life during the warming periods are great times to be alive (at least as far as climate science goes). However much longer the Modern Warm Period lasts, we should be glad we live in it.

8 posted on 07/18/2022 8:59:32 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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9 posted on 07/18/2022 9:00:55 AM PDT by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: SunkenCiv

You can’t count on the “scientists” to not be political tools anymore. Evidence Covid 19.


12 posted on 07/18/2022 9:07:25 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The whole Sahara used to be inhabited.
And now, thank to “climate change” is greening again!


17 posted on 07/18/2022 9:49:41 AM PDT by AZJeep
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To: SunkenCiv

People moving to where there is water isn’t exactly news. It pretty much defines history.


22 posted on 07/18/2022 10:45:43 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: SunkenCiv

Trying to do something about climate change does more damage than climate change. The reality is that we only know the climate is changing and that is because it can’t not change. We don’t have any idea whether it is warming or cooling and we don’t really know what the cause is either way. All we can do is theorize about carbon dioxide because it is pretty much guaranteed that there is more CO2 in the atmosphere since humans started burning coal and petroleum. But cutting carbon dioxide is only done by reducing economic activity.


23 posted on 07/18/2022 11:15:59 AM PDT by webheart
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To: SunkenCiv
A powerful tropical volcanic eruption around 266 CE, which in the following year brought a below-average flood of the Nile, presumably also played a role. Major eruptions are known from sulfuric acid deposits in ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, and can be dated to within three years. Particles hurled up into the stratosphere lead to a cooling of the climate, disrupting the local monsoon system.(your ref)

Followed by the 535 eruption of Krakatoa. Summer temperatures in 536 fell by as much as 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) below normal in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536

26 posted on 07/18/2022 12:32:06 PM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: SunkenCiv

Climate change never sleeps.

4.5 billion years old and still going strong.


29 posted on 07/18/2022 8:43:42 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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